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    Charitable Institutions at Naples * TJProm Etistact ^ s Cl assical Tour tfcroogh Italy . Vol . I . ]

    But if the churches do no creditto' ( ho ' taste of the Neapolitans , the hospitals reflect much honour

    oa their charity . These establishments are very numerous , and adapted to every species of distress to which man is subject in

    iffftfd or body . Ma ny of them mtS richly endcmed , and alf clean , well attended and w ^ ll regulated . Ofttr circumstance almost peculiar t # Italian ftosttitails and charitable

    ftftftidfttions ^ contributes cssen - titailly J tv > thvbr splendor &rrd pros . pferiw ; it is , that they arc not only -attefivled'by persons who devot ^ thetnselv ^ K entirely arid withotaft ^ anv iiW rested vf £ mv * to the r& ±

    lief of" stfflfefrifig humanity , but thkt thVy are governed and inspected , not norrtifraFfyj but re&Uy , by jpersons of the first rftrik avid etStJcatfott , who manage the interns of the : establishments with a

    priidence and assiduity which they s ^ Moitt pe rhaps dis ^ pky in thfcir

    owti domestic e ^ onomfy . Besides tOF ^ lhid ^ t every hospital is attack * e # ona and ^ ortieti nies more confrdtfernltic ^ of ^ ious associations , f ^ fn ^ A Ur purpose of relieving

    sotn ^ i ^ rlituter ^ petie ^ s of distress , or averting 6 t remedying some evil . These coftfratetfiities thdugh founded ifpdn tlhib ba ^ isdf equality , a « d of course open to all ranks , genesfally contain a very

    considerable proportion of noble persotte , who make it a point to fulft ! the duties of the fcssorfation

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    with an exactness as honourable to themselves , as it is exemplary and beneficial to the public . These persons visit the respective hos ~ pitals almost daily , inquire iato the situation and circumstances of

    every patient , mid oftentimes attend on them personally , and render them th « most humble &er > vices . They perform these duties

    in disguise , and generally in th < $ ? dress or uniform worn t > y tim confraternity , for the express pu& * pose of diverting public att ^ i ^ tiqi ^ from the individuals , and filing it on the object only of the asspr ciatron . Instead of description which would be here misplac ^ d ^ I &ha ] l insert a few observations *

    Of charitable faundadons in Naples , the number is above sixty * Of these , seven are h . osp ) ta < l $ propeiiy so called ^ thirty at . lea ^ t are conservatories or yeeeptaeled for helpless orphans , foundliogs , &C .: five are banks- for the relief

    of such industrious poor asr ar ^ distressed by the occasional vyaj ^ t af small sums of inouey : the others are eitlier schools or confr ^ teraities . The incomes of most of th ^ se establishments , particularly of the hospitals , are ir * fien ^ ralvery

    considerable , but seldom eq ^ u ^ i to the expenditure . The annual deficiency ^ how great soever il maybe , is abunda ^ Hly auppliedt by donations , most of which come from unknown benefactors .

    , 1 he two principal hospitals are , that called JDeglilncurabili , which , notwithstanding its title , is open to sick persons of all descriptions

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/13/